I… I already did pronounce the L 😔
What the hell! Let's all just go crazy!
Submitted 11 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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BulbasaurBabu@lemmings.world 11 months ago
Sargteapot@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
Freak
Moc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Go ahead and pronounce the a in freak, nothing matters anymore
DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
American and urban? I’ve noticed that all a lot of black people in and near cities pronounce the L. I always get a chuckle and they look at me like I’m a pompous British/French general from the 1800s or an idiot that can’t pronounce Ls.
creditCrazy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In Vermont we also pronounce the L however the N is dropped.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Next you’ll be telling me I should pronounce the L in island as well!
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
fun fact: the S in island is completely fucking made up, the original spelling was “iland” with “i” being cognate with “ö” in swedish. It basically means island land and the only reason why there’s an S in there is because some shithead thought it was related to the french word “isle” and felt that INCORRECT idea warranted changing the spelling.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yep. It is indeed. Same with the K in knight, which was added for no fucking reason.
pwalker@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I think what you said is slightly wrong. Island and isle are both English words that seem to have no ethymological connection. However close semantic relation of “isle” might have cause the introduction of the “s” at some point. Isle itself probably comes from latin “insula”. The French still have only one word “Île”. Germans have “Eiland” and “Insel”.
island [OE] Despite their similarity, island has no etymological connection with isle (their resemblance is due to a 16th-century change in the spelling of island under the influence of its semantic neighbour isle). Island comes ultimately from a prehistoric Germanic *aujō, which denoted ‘land associated with water,’ and was distantly related to Latin aqua ‘water’. This passed into Old English as īeg ‘island,’ which was subsequently compounded with land to form īegland ‘island’. By the late Middle English period this had developed to iland, the form which was turned into island. (A diminutive form of Old English īeg, incidentally, has given us eyot ‘small island in a river’ [OE].)
Isle [13] itself comes via Old French ile from Latin insula (the s is a 15th-century reintroduction from Latin). Other contributions made by insula to English include insular [17], insulate [16], insulin, isolate [via Italian) [18], and peninsula [16].
MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Can the UN declare that every school needs to replace Island with Iland?
thefartographer@lemm.ee 11 months ago
i-sand… is-and… isund? iand? Ok, I give up, how are you supposed to pronounce it without the L?
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Now that is the real question.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
etymologically the word is made up of “i” and “land”, the “s” was added by some idiot in the 15th century. “i” is cognate with “ö” in swedish which simply means “island”, so just pull a power move and drop all the other letters completely.
FarFarAway@startrek.website 11 months ago
You mean the s?
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean the L. Like in salmon.
woobie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I already do this with the word “solder” which confuses my fellow Americans greatly. They seem to think I’m lying that the L is sounded out in other English speaking countries.
I just think the American pronunciation (SAW-dur) sounds wrong.
toynbee@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t solder, so I’m no expert, but I’ve only ever heard it pronounced “sodder” (though agreed, leaving out the “l” sound is an odd choice).
matter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In UK/Australia/NZ we pronounce it as written, with the l.
isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I am today years old learning that it was spelled with an L and not just a D.
IndefiniteBen@leminal.space 11 months ago
Out of all the different ways Americans pronounce words differently, hearing sodder is the only one that makes me cringe.
ThatOneBatTurd@lemmy.one 11 months ago
What area of the country are you in? I’m on the West Coast and the normal pronunciation is with the L. Pronunciations often depend on region though
moonsnotreal@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
In New England I’ve only ever heard it without the L (like “sodder”).
woobie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m on the west coast, Northern California. Huh.
dingus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m in the US and I’ve never heard anyone pronounce it “SAW-dur” in person or in any form of media. You are supposed to pronounce the L in the General American accent.
NucleusAdumbens@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think this is a misunderstanding. The poster you’re replying to is talking about solder, not soldier (which you wrote, assuming that’s the word you meant). Solder, as in a soldering iron, is pronounced Saw-dur in the US. Ya dingus 😉
Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Couldn’t even wait longer than an hour to complain about downvotes.
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Not really, it’s the same as caulk.
obinice@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I always find it odd that Americans pronounce it so weirdly, but that’s different cultures with different fresh takes on our language I suppose.
Kase@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not to be confused with
soljersoldierSwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 11 months ago
You say that, but there’s the anachronistic nautical slang “soger” for an inept or lazy sailor. It came from the soldiers assigned to British navy ships, who did not participate in the sailing of the vessel.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Shieldtoad@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
From now on I’ll pronounce Worcester as whore Chester.
lugal@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In a German quizz show, there was the question how to pronounce it and not everyone know
Skaryon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
WORSCHESTERSOSSE
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Leave Chester alone, he’s just misunderstood!
NABDad@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah. Dude has to earn a living somehow.
fushuan@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I speak Spanish and it’s wild to have no many randomly decided silent letters in words. We have the H that is silent always, and that’s it. We have Salmón, with the intonation in the o, and we of course pronounce the L. I can’t even say salmon without the L while not sounding stupid.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
You should see Fr*nch.
They only pronounce the vowels and once in a blue moon a consonance.
wieson@lemmy.world 11 months ago
But it’s systematic. In English, it’s systemless, complete wild west out there smh
I_Has_A_Hat@startrek.website 11 months ago
The Channel Lock Lets Boats Through
Now in French:
E a’el oh es oas trou
qyron@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
stares from Portugal
“nh” and “lh” are sounds
desto@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Are those like ñ and ll in Spanish, or different?
Siegfried@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No me entra en la cabeza que hagan silenciosa la L de salmón… hasta te diría que me ofende ligeramente esta información.
MECHAGIC@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You weren’t supposed to do that?
sunbytes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh sugar, I already do
Cruxifux@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just try to pronounce laugh as it’s spelt. I dare you.
f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Salmon is a type of ghoti.
pirat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ghoti (fish) is referring to an old Tom Scott video about the inconsistencies of the English language, right?
Kase@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It has facial hair??
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
i believe that’s a welsh insult
lugal@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ich sehe was du tatest hier
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 11 months ago
okay I did it. It’s pointless to write out what I said. But you get it.
thefartographer@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Laowguh-hhhh
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
🪵-h
wieson@lemmy.world 11 months ago
dewritoninja@pawb.social 11 months ago
Salmon in English sounds like semen in Spanish
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Are the flavors similar too?
dewritoninja@pawb.social 11 months ago
I don’t know but id happily consume several kilograms of both
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I’d be worried if so.
Aggravationstation@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Partly wish I had Twitter in order to commend them on their choice of Frisky Dingo profile pic, but I’m not visiting Twitter.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Instructions unclear: Dm’d OP my pubes
Aggravationstation@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean hey, it’s Friday. Why not?
obinice@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You know what? You’re absolutely right! We have no future, if climate change doesn’t get us in the next 50 years, or the endless crushing of the working classes under late stage capitalism, then the rising new wave of western fascism will when it takes over.
Nothing matters any more, let’s just do whatever we want <3
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Orgy, anyone?
I’ll bring the wine.
MySkinIsFallingOff@lemmy.world 11 months ago
SALMON
brown567@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Just as long as I can simultaneously drop the’l’ sound from salmonella
callyral@pawb.social 11 months ago
what
is it not pronounced /sɔɫmən/ (sol-muhn)???
reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 11 months ago
SAM-in
smackjack@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I always pronounce the H in Meghan and the TH in Thailand in my head.
Siethron@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Thighland is a very different place in my head.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Herb.
Phone.
Come at me Pronouncation nerds.
HipHoboHarold@lemmy.world 11 months ago
While we are at it, the. The t doesn’t sound like a t. The h doesn’t sound like an h. The e doesn’t sound like an e.
None of the letters sound like how they should when looked at individually. I propose we change this. From now on, each letter gets pronounced as itself in the word the.
GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 11 months ago
salman rushdie
creditCrazy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Let me give it a try “flip flop plop plop”. Still working on my salmonese.
Emerald@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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Jake Vig, @Jake_Vig
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You might as well go ahead and pronounce the “L” in “salmon.” Nothing matters anymore.
octoperson@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Can anyone say the s and the th in Isthmus? It’s making my tongue feel funny.
mapiki@lemm.ee 11 months ago
As someone who regularly mispronounces this as rhyming with almonds I feel a little attacked
I also say the following wrong: Ikea, Nutella, idea. Somehow my bilingual brain just gives up.
reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 11 months ago
*They put sall-mon in the fish tacos, Hank. ¡SALL-MON!
SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 11 months ago
🔫 always has been 🔫
tygerprints@kbin.social 11 months ago
Oh fine, let's just start pronouncing "recognize" as though there were actually a "G" in it then!! I mean where does the madness stop!!
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Midwestern gang out here saying the l in palm
niktemadur@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Now that’s a Rubicon that I crossed ages ago.
samus12345@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Or the “T” in “often!”
Oh, wait, lots of people do that already.
get_the_reference_@midwest.social 11 months ago
I should have been saying it like that all along, but, you know, woulda, coulda, shoulda!
EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
And pronounce aluminum the wrong way too.
And pronounce the letter H incorrectly! Why not?
Decoy321@lemmy.world 11 months ago
… You were supposed to the whole time …
WorkIsSlow@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nothing ever mattered? D:
Rodeo@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
LiNGuIsTiC pResCrIPtiViSm
aelwero@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My wife and I have been on board for decades :)